Bellvue author pens book about bears

9:58 PM,
Apr. 6, 2012

About 12,000 black bears call Colorado home, some of which get in trouble in urban areas.

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Few have ever seen a black bear in the wild in Colorado. Divide that by perhaps a million and you have the number of people who have cozied up between a hibernating black bear mother and her yearling in a den.

Bellvue author Laura Pritchett is a mega jackpot winner. As part of research for her book "Great Colorado Bear Stories", which was released April 1, Pritchett joined Colorado Parks and Wildlife and Colorado State University researchers on a grueling hours-long snowshoe trek up 1,200 feet to the den on a mountainside above Aspen.